Guilty Gear Strive Dual Rulers\u2019 creators explain why GG series needed an anime ASW\/Project GUILTY GEAR STRIVE DRThe team behind the Guilty Gear Strive Dual Rulers anime spoke with us about what they\u2019re most excited for about the anime and why so many fighting games are getting shows and movies lately. Guilty Gear is the latest fighting game to get the television treatment, following Tekken\u2019s animated series on Netflix and news of Legendary\u2019s forthcoming Street Fighter film. It makes sense that Guilty Gear is getting an anime; in fact, it\u2019s odd that it hasn\u2019t had one yet, given its status as one of the biggest mainline anime fighting games on the market. Guilty Gear enjoys a large and passionate fan base that shows up and shows out at fighting game tournaments across the globe, not to mention the surprising number of Guilty Gear cosplayers thronging the halls at Anime Expo, where we got to speak with the team behind the games\u2019 anime adaptation. Given the sheer number of video game IPs being adapted in Hollywood right now (Detective Pikachu, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Mario, just to name a few), it looks like there\u2019s a huge trend in the gaming industry to expand upon their properties by way of the silver screen. We quizzed the Dual Rulers team about their thoughts on this pattern, particularly in relation to fighting games. \u201cSince I\u2019m from Arcsys and not Bandai Namco or Capcom, I can\u2019t say why they\u2019re doing that,\u201d admitted Guilty Gear Strive producer Ken Miyauchi. \u201cBut, the theory I have is that the main objective of expanding fighting games to other media, not just movies or cinema, but also manga or novels or anime, is to basically grow the games\u2019 player base. \u201cIt\u2019s easier to reach out to players and built-in fans of the game, but when we try to reach out to people who don\u2019t often play video games, but maybe watch a lot of movies or are big anime fans, the best way to approach those people is to have content in their favorite media. That\u2019s the approach that I think most companies are taking.\u201d That\u2019s something the Dual Rulers\u2019 team hopes the anime will accomplish, aiming to bridge the gap between hardcore fans and newcomers to the franchise. Specifically, they made mention of Guilty Gear\u2019s rich history \u2014 a story spanning over 26 years and counting. Given the sheer amount of lore to work with, we had to know if it was challenging staying faithful to the source material when making the anime, which picks up after the events of Guilty Gear Strive. \u201cThe thing about Guilty Gear is that, of course, it has a very long history to it,\u201d Seiji Mizushima, Dual Rulers\u2019 Associate Producer, explained. \u201cAnd, when you\u2019re making an anime like this, you want to decide where you want to take it and where you want to begin that story. If you take the wrong era of the story, it can be very hard to onboard new people to the series. So, you want to, of course, have them join in, but you also still want to create something that older fans can enjoy. You need to find the balance. \u201cEverybody puts forward their ideas, you decide what to do about that, and then you create a target on where you\u2019re aiming to take all of these ideas. And at that point, you kind of pass it on to the scenario guy.\u201d Norimitsu Kaiho, Dual Rulers\u2019 series composition lead, echoed this sentiment, \u201cAs Mizushima-san said, there\u2019s a lot of story there, a lot of history, and you can\u2019t just barge in and make a brash decision on that. You have to think about something that works, something that\u2019s fun. And that\u2019s something that we\u2019re working really hard to really accomplish.\u201d It\u2019s clear that this team cares deeply about Guilty Gear \u2014 especially Kaiho, who\u2019s been a Chipp Zanuff main since Day One. He even wrote a novel about the character, as told in the Guilty Gear Strive Dual Rulers panel at Anime Expo. Kaiho told me what he\u2019s most excited about for the anime, fervently expressing in plain English that he\u2019s extremely keen on connecting the fighting game series\u2019 past, present, and future with Dual Rulers for both old and new fans alike. \u201cThe most exciting thing about the Guilty Gear anime for me is connecting the past and the present and the future,\u201d he said. \u201cYou know, Guilty Gear has a very rich history, both in its characters and the world and everything. And there are many themes and problems in Guilty Gear, like Gears versus humans, what is humanity, and those sorts of questions. \u201cSo, we will hit on those questions and answer some of them for both the newcomers and both for the old-timers. Connecting the past to the future \u2014 that\u2019s what I\u2019m really excited about.\u201d For Mizushima, successfully pulling off a story that pays homage to an existing property, especially one with such rich characters and lore, is what excites him about Dual Rulers the most. \u201cMaking an anime and being able to continue a story, showing that off, and particularly for the Guilty Gear world \u2014 a world that already exists, with the richness of the setting, the richness of the characters \u2014 being able to show that without falling out of line of what has been put in place before, being able to see the joy of newcomers as they watch this and as they live this\u2026 \u201cSeeing this as a kind of an entry point into the series and into this world, as well as being able to get really strong reactions from old fans \u2014 that\u2019s what excites me the most,\u201d Mizushima said. Guilty Gear Strive Dual Rulers is slated to air in 2025 following the world premier of its very first trailer at Anime Expo 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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